Engineering distributed software: a structural discipline

  • Authors:
  • Jeff Kramer;Jeff Magee

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, London, UK;Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The role of structure in specifying, designing, analysing, constructing and evolving software has been the central theme of our research in Distributed Software Engineering. This structural discipline dictates formalisms and techniques that are compositional, components that are context independent and systems that can be constructed and evolved incrementally. This extended abstract overviews our development of a structural approach to engineering distributed software and gives indications of our future work which moves from explicit to implicit structural specification. With the benefit of hindsight we attempt to give a "rational history" to our research.